Philadelphia Summit on Pediatric Home Asthma Interventions

This event was the fifth in a series of local meetings supported by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Philadelphia Summit was coordinated locally by the Community Asthma Prevention Program of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

This Summit was effective in that it convened the right people into one place to hear public and private insurers in Pennsylvania indicate they understand the health and cost benefits of expanding coverage for community health workers (CHW) for asthma management and are open to considering ways to do this. Equally important, the connection between health and housing was a prominent theme during the day and a charge was raised to do more to target housing repairs for high risk asthma patients.